Phoenix Dance Theatre at Watford Palace

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Under artistic director Sharon Watson, the Leeds-based Phoenix Dance Theatre aims to be the leading middle-scale dance company in the UK. As an ambition, it’s not unrealistic. Having grown beyond recognition in the 30 years since its founding, Phoenix is now one of the most creative and viable touring outfits in the country, as its latest touring mixed bill proves.

Didy Veldman’s See Blue Through, which Phoenix first performed in 2005, suggests that an entire dance is taking place underwater. The stage is dark and gloomy like the depths of the ocean; the movement is at first slow and fluid,